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Collections

Seated Woman with Regalia800–1600 CE

Not on view
Terracotta ceramic figure, waist-up human form with elaborate spiked headdress, broad flat face, and incised V-shaped collar, on a banded base
Terracotta figurine torso with broad shoulders and small stub arms, viewed from the back, topped by an elaborate headdress of vertical raised ridges and serrated projections, with small perforations along the crown; weathered reddish-brown clay surface.
Title
Seated Woman with Regalia
Culture
Muisca
Place Made
Colombia, Eastern Cordillera (Muisca Period)
Date Made
800–1600 CE
Medium
Ceramic and red pigment
Dimensions
9 1/2 × 6 × 4 3/8 in. (24.1 × 15.2 × 11.1 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.683
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Burtenshaw, Julia, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, and María Alicia Uribe Villegas. The Portable Universe = El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.